Lieberman jokes about waterboarding at black-tie Alfalfa Club dinner

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Lieberman jokes about waterboarding at black-tie dinner



http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/01/lieberman-alfalfa-dinner/

At last night’s black-tie dinner at Washington’s Alfalfa Club, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) couldn’t resist cracking a joke about torture. Politico’s Mike Allen reports:

More from Senator Lieberman: ‘We had hoped Vice President Cheney would be here tonight. I hope it’s not his back injury that’s keeping him away. Apparently, he hurt it moving some things out of his office. Personally, I had no idea that waterboards were so heavy.

Last year, Lieberman, who has voted against banning waterboarding, “reluctantly acknowledged” that he doesn’t believe that waterboarding is torture. “It is not like putting burning coals on people’s bodies. The person is in no real danger. The impact is psychological,” he said.

[BlooInBloo]

1. What an abominable person.

[LakeSamish706]

2. I think they should try it out on all of these pukes that don't think it is torture. n/t

[marylanddem]

3. Sickening POS

[tanyev]

4. I wish Allen would have reported the crowd's reaction.

Hopefully the joke fell like a lead balloon.

[sakabatou]

5. You shame my gradfathers name, you motherfucker.

[Frustratedlady]

6. He surely had a mountain of other topics he could have used.

Did anyone laugh?

[immoderate]

7. Someone should shove a burning coal up his ass.

Psychological, indeed. :grr:

--imm

[TahitiNut]

8. So, psychological harm isn't 'real' harm???

Really? :wow:

Joe you smarmy self-indulgent FUCK! :grr:

[alfredo]

11. Psychological harm is still a war crime.

[LSparkle]

17. He needs to suffer some catastrophic event that causes him PTSD ...

If he's been fortunate enough to live as long as he
has without even SOME exposure to psychological trauma,
he's one lucky fuck ... Even the '94 Northridge earth-
quake caused me to have sleep disturbances and substance
abuse issues for A YEAR afterward. Traitor Joe has
led a pretty pampered life if he can so easily dismiss
psychological suffering.

[Matariki]

9. Worse, I'm pretty sure he stole that joke.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. Hmmmm..... Joe thinks it is a funny topic why am I not

surprised?

[customerserviceguy]

12. I know we're still mad at him for last year

but it was not a joke belittling waterboarding as torture, it was a joke slamming Dick Cheney. If Jay Leno's jokewriters had come up with it first, we'd have heard it on the Tonight Show and laughed.

[90-percent]

13. more joe suggestions

why not a few droll comments about all the KBR shower electrocutions of our Service Men?

How about KBR not getting their Iraq reconstruction contracts renewed?

there's also a wealth of material about the wall street bailout - how many foreclosures does it take to earn a 20 million dollar bonus? Answer: 37 yuk-yuk-yuk

Joe has so much he can draw from for comic material.

[Blue Dog Dominion]

14. I thought it was funny.

[Orangeone]

15. Why would anyone be suprised?

He likes Arabs/Muslims to be killed or tortured.

[liberalpragmatist]

16. Not a fan of Joe but it strikes me as more of a Cheney joke

At least from what's written, it reads like he mocking Cheney for waterboarding people.